Lesson 8: Higher Thinking Skills Through IT-Based Projects

In this lesson, there are four  types of IT-Based projects which can effectively be used in order to engage students in activities of a higher plane of thinking. Resource-based projects which talks about  to go beyond the textbook and curriculum materials; Simple creations in where creating is more consonant with planning, making, assembling, designing, or building; Guided hypermedia projects in where  the learner may follow his path of activities thereby providing an environment of learner autonomy and thinking skills; and Web-based projects in where students can be made to create and post webpages on a given topic.

            By the use of IT based project we developed higher order thinking skills to our students that lets the students to organize their mind, giving problems and let them formulate ideas that could resolved it. The use of IT based project which lets the students facilitate their own thinking and making them more competence. The best example to site for this is during Educational Technology 1 when we are task to use the Cyberlink Power Director to make our own short film.

            We should know that the use of IT based project isn't just the way to achieve higher thinking skills. As a teacher we should know how to use the available resources that usable outside or inside in the classroom to acquire knowledge special to some areas where technology is not yet introduce very well. We should all know that technology is not a replacement to us teacher but it as tool. Developing higher order thinking skills still lies to us teacher and how we handle our students.

            The  use of technology today in the classroom is kind of common in some reasons that it could make their lesson easier and faster. We should always bare on our mind that the use of technology is not for the sake of the convenience that it gives us teacher but also to promote conducive teaching and learning process to our students.